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===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] &ndash; [[John Rainolds]], English scholar and academic (b. 1549)
*[[1617]] &ndash; [[Luis Fajardo (Spanish Navy officer)|Luis Fajardo]], Spanish admiral and nobleman (b. {{circa}} 1556)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/13105/luis-fajardo |title=Luis Fajardo |work=Diccionario Biográfico Español |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=es }}</ref>
*[[1619]] &ndash; [[Hieronymus Fabricius]], Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Tommaso Campanella]], Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568)
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]], Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
*[[1650]] &ndash; [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1612)
*[[1664]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Poole]], English settler, founded [[Taunton, Massachusetts]] (b. 1588)
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[Niccolò Zucchi]], Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Otto von Guericke]], German physicist and inventor of the [[Magdeburg Hemispheres]] (b. 1602)
*[[1690]] &ndash; [[John Eliot (missionary)|John Eliot]], English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[Pierre Poiret]], French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
*[[1724]] &ndash; [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1661)
*[[1742]] &ndash; [[Lars Roberg]], Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
*[[1762]] &ndash; [[Alexander Joseph Sulkowski]], Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Christopher Smart]], English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
*[[1786]] &ndash; [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[Thomas Warton]], English poet and critic (b. 1728)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Chevalier d'Eon]], French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Sikandar Jah|Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam]] (b. 1768)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200615190817/https://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| archive-date = 2020-06-15| title = Asaf Jahis – AP State Portal}} </ref>
*[[1844]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Baini]], Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[José de la Riva Agüero]], Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)<ref>{{cite book|first=Benjamin Eli|last=Smith|title=The Century cyclopedia of names: a pronouncing and etymological dictionary of names in geography, biography, mythology, history, ethnology, art, archaeology, fiction, etc., etc., etc.|url=https://archive.org/details/centurycyclopedi00smit/page/858/mode/2up|year=1903|publisher=The Century Company|location=New York|page=858}}</ref>
*[[1862]] &ndash; [[John Drew (actor)|John Drew]], Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Arturo Prat]], Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Émile Henry (anarchist)|Émile Henry]], French anarchist (b. 1872)
*  1894   &ndash; [[August Kundt]], German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Franz von Suppé]], Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)